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What is the singular of hirudin?

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The noun hirudin can be countable or uncountable.

The singular form of hirudin is also hirudin.

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Many experiments show that hirudin acts by inhibiting the blood protein thrombin. Thrombin is responsible for converting fibrinogen into fibrin blood clots.
Researchers have been able to isolate hirudin to study how it prevents blood from clotting.
As they do so, their salivary glands secrete hirudin, an anticoagulant so effective that the pharmaceutical industry synthesises it as a blood-thinning agent.
For example, doctors use hirudin, a substance discovered in the saliva of leeches, to dissolve dangerous blood clots.
Feeding is facilitated by the secretion of hirudin.
By conjugating this tetrapeptide or variants thereof to a C-terminal fragment of hirudin, we were able to generate a series of new multivalent inhibitors of thrombin containing only genetically encodable natural amino acids.

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